Man shoots wife, kills himself in Denton County

A Denton County man shot his wife before fatally shooting himself in an attempted murder-suicide late Saturday, the sheriff’s office said.

Deputies were dispatched to Providence Village, a housing community, at 11:17 p.m. Saturday after a hang-up 911 call. Deputies heard shots when they arrived, said Denton County sheriff’s spokesman Tom Reedy.

Inside a home in the 1300 block of Oakcrest Drive, deputies found a 48-year-old woman who had been shot in the stomach. She was flown to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, where she underwent surgery. She was in the hospital’s Surgical Intensive Care Unit Sunday evening.

Her 50-year-old husband was dead in the home. After shooting his wife, authorities said, he shot himself with a handgun.

The woman’s 23-year-old special-needs daughter was home but was uninjured. She was placed in the care of a family member, Reedy said.

The attempted murder-suicide was the second in Providence Village in less than two months.

On Nov. 5, Denton County sheriff’s deputies discovered the bodies of 29-year-old Nelson Rafael Rodriguez-Doran and 27-year-old Christina Marie Allen when they responded to a welfare concern at a house in the 10200 block of Lakeview Drive. Investigators think Rodriguez-Doran shot Allen multiple times, including once in the head, with a semiautomatic pistol before shooting himself in the head.

Allen had a 10-year-old son, who was not home. Authorities said family members are caring for the boy.

Neighbors said Rodriguez-Doran had recently returned from his second tour of duty in Afghanistan. The family had lived in the house just a few weeks.

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